The mood was electric that crisp, clear February day as couples lined up at San Francisco City Hall to be among the first to get licenses for same-sex marriages in California.
Nine tortuous years followed: The state high court halted and invalidated the...

Complaints about the massive open-air recycling facility in Sun Valley flow in each month in minute, sometimes stomach-turning detail.
Rats have skittered off the property of Community Recycling & Resource Recovery and into a nearby business,...

As state officials make their case for gay marriage, a new Field Poll showed record support in California for same sex unions.
"By a nearly two-to-one margin (61% to 32%), California voters approve of allowing same-sex couples to marry," according to...

California’s top law enforcement officer told the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday that Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage should be overturned because its sole purpose was to “strip loving relationships of validation and dignity...

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At San Francisco City Hall, officials are awaiting their moment in history, but they just don't know when it will come.
In the complex calculus of gay marriage in California, weddings could become legal within days. So City Hall is preparing for a possible crush of same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses and making contingency plans for demonstrations.
But it is also possible that this preparation is for naught and the future of same-sex unions will remain up in the air for months or longer....

One person was killed and traffic was backed up for miles following an early Thursday morning collision on the 134 Freeway in Toluca Lake, officials said.
At least two vehicles were involved in the crash on the westbound side of the freeway at Cahuenga Boulevard, which was reported to the Los Angeles Fire Department around 4:30 a.m.
Two people suffered minor injuries in the crash, while a third was dead at the scene, officials told the L.A. Times.
More than two hours after the accident, only the...

Search-and-rescue teams were looking for possible survivors Wednesday after a car apparently plunged 400 feet off California 39 into the Morris Reservoir in the Angeles National Forest.
L.A. County fire officials said they did not know when the car plunged off the road, whether anyone had been in it or whether anyone could have survived such a fall, according to the L.A. Times.
They also did not have a description of the car. They said they got a call about the car about 7:20 a.m. Wednesday.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has pushed back by 10 days the date on which it will consider whether to review the issue of gay marriage in California, according to lawyers in the case.
The court had been set to discuss whether to grant review of Hollingsworth vs. Perry on Nov. 20, but now says it will consider it on Friday Nov. 30, according to lawyers who represent Kris Perry and three other plaintiffs seeking to marry their partners in California.
If the high court decides at that time not to grant review of...